Word: barmaid
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...play concerns itself with a very brief, but critical, episode in the lives of three people. Two are former French soldiers, just released from the service and about to sail for Canada; the other is Therese, a pretty barmaid in a small wineshop near the docks of a seacoast town in northern France...
...some man, goes away. The new maid Hester dislikes Linda, infatuates Stephen, is infatuated herself by David. At an apple-christening, when girls select their lads, Hester openly chooses David, but he turns her down. Jealous, Stephen goes off to Wildwick, on the sea, makes love to Nan, a barmaid there. Linda often goes to Wildwick too. Before she knows it she is in love with Garry, a fisherboy. The outcome of these perturbations is that Stephen marries Nan, David runs off to marry Rose; but Garry is drowned...
...like Brodie and get away with it forever. A big men's-furnish-ing company from Edinburgh opened a branch shop next to Brodie's, undersold him, drove him gradually out of business. He welcomed his wife's death because it let him engage buxom young Barmaid Nancy as "housekeeper"; whiskey and Nancy became his crutches. Then Son Matt came whining home from India, hung around the house till one fine day he and Nancy went off to South America. Brodie leaned more heavily on the bottle, pinned all his hopes on Nessie's winning...
Rose Milligan, a barmaid in Louth, Ireland, whose nom de plume on the ticket was "My Pub Now" because she had always wanted to own a saloon. She said that with her $50,000 she would...
Ashenden was a boy when he first met Drimeld, then a struggling author, and Rosie, his beautiful barmaid wife. When the Driffields "shot the moon" (left town without paying their debts J, Ashenden thought he would never see them again. But years later, while a medical student in London, he met Rosie on the street, went home with her to tea, became an habitue of the Drimeld salon. Rosie was the chief attraction. Kindhearted, affectionate, she became Ashenden's mistress, but he knew he shared her with others. One day she ran off to the U. S. with a married...